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Recent LL.M. Pro Bono Fellows
Maria del Rocio Gonzalez Alcantara L.
2007-2008 Fellow, Mexico
Ms. Gonzalez joins Columbia Law School from Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, S.C. in Mexico City, where she is a senior associate in constitutional and administrative practice. In 2002, Ms. Gonzalez was selected to be the youngest-ever lead staff attorney in the Supreme Court of Administrative Justice for Mexico City, a position she held for three years. After earning her LL.M. at Columbia, Ms. Gonzalez plans to return to her firm and to teach administrative and constitutional law at the university. She will also become a member in the first mediation center at Universidad Iberoamericana, a pro bono project that will provide low-income people with legal assistance to obtain fair solutions to their everyday problems.
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Hugo López-Coll
2007-2008 Fellow, Mexico
Mr. López-Coll comes to Columbia from Cervantes, Aguilar-Alvarez y
Sainz, S.C. in Mexico City and brings with him a strong commitment
to pro bono and entrepreneurship. At his firm, Mr. López-Coll is responsible for a legal team that approaches legal matters with creative and innovative solutions. Mr. López-Coll has focused a substantial part of his pro bono service on assisting nonprofit organizations in Mexico that serve the poor and disadvantaged by providing counsel in corporate and regulatory matters in order to enhance their capabilities. Likewise, Mr. López-Coll dedicates a substantial portion of his spare time to acting as legal counsel for a nonprofit organization in Mexico City whose goal is to link immigrants' nonprofit organizations in an effort to generate tangible benefits to immigrants in the social, economic and cultural spheres. Upon completing the LL.M. Pro Bono Fellowship, Mr. López-Coll plans to return to Mexico as senior associate at Cervantes, Aguilar-Alvarez y Sainz, S.C. and hopes to become a partner at the firm.
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Juan Jose Bouchon
2006-2007 Fellow; Santiago, Chile
Juan comes to Columbia Law School from Carey y Cia., the largest law firm in Chile. There he served as the head attorney and coordinator of an alliance between his firm and Un Techo para Chile, a national voluntary organization working to build houses, provide educational assistance, and grant micro credits to underprivileged people. He was an assistant professor of the internship course at the Catholic University of Chile, which functions as a clinic offering free legal assistance to underprivileged clients. He also has taught a course on labor Law, which provides practical training to unemployed and under-educated Chileans in labor and employees' rights. Juan completed a professional internship at the Corporation of Judicial Assistance, where he offered free legal advice in family and labor Law. Juan plans to strengthen partnerships between Carey y Cia., Un Techo para Chile, and the Fundacion Pro Bono, and ultimately to create a Pro Bono Department at his firm. (jjb2136@columbia.edu)
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Layla Carvalho
2006-2007 Fellow; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Layla's work in civil and corporate areas was never an obstacle to her pro bono practice in Brazil. As a volunteer attorney with the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Law School Legal Assistance program, Layla worked to help low-income Brazilians surmount barriers to equal justice. She has also established a long-term pro bono commitment to the Two Brothers Foundation, where she gave legal assistance to disadvantaged people in Rocinha, the largest shanty-town in Rio de Janeiro. Layla earned her Bachelor of Law degree from the UERJ in 2001. She also received an LL.M. degree in Business Law from Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid in 2004 with a fellowship from the Spanish Government. After completing her fellowship at Columbia, Layla's aim is to work for constitutional democracy and equality in Brazil through the development of pro bono culture in law firms and companies. (ldc2107@columbia.edu)
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Pablo Falabella
2006-2007 Fellow; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pablo has taken an active interest in programs sponsored by his firm, Bullo-Tassi-Estebenet-Lipera-Torassa Attorneys, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pablo is a 2002 graduate of the Argentine Pontifical Catholic University. During law school, Pablo worked pro bono as a law clerk in the Public Defender's Office researching constitutional and criminal legal issues, drafting appellate briefs, and attending to convicted prisoners. He also has been an active member of the Youth Commission of the Buenos Aires City Bar Association, through which he hopes to build consciousness that the Argentine legal system must change gradually in order to provide economic prosperity and equal opportunities to all citizens. He hopes to eventually become a judge in Argentina. (pf2169@columbia.edu)
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Juliana Barbosa Pechincha
2006-2007 Fellow; Sao Paulo, Brazil
Juliana recently started work at De Vivo, Whitaker e Castro Advogados in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Juliana previously coordinated the Pro Bono Committee at Demarest & Almeida Advogados, which provided legal and fundraising assistance to national and international non-governmental organizations, including Casa do Amparo, Unibes, and the International Children's Foundation Centre. Much of her commitment to helping underprivileged people gain access to justice stems from the strong altruistic influence of her grandmother and her parents. Juliana received her Bachelor of Law at the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) in 1996 and received her first LL.M. in civil procedure at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1999. She has commenced doctoral work at the PUC/SP focused on arbitration and hopes to gain experience in international dispute resolution at Columbia Law School. Juliana plans to apply her graduate studies to the Brazilian context through outreach activities; through work to unify pro bono rules in large Sao Paulo firms; and through the development of international partnerships between firms and law schools, law societies or not-for-profit organizations. (jbp2114@columbia.edu)
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Juliana Gomes Ramalho
2006-2007 Fellow; Sao Paulo, Brazil
Juliana works in the Department of Non-Profit Organizations, Culture, and Social Responsibility in the Sao Paulo firm of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, the first law firm in Brazil to create a pro bono department. Through her work she has provided legal advice to several non-profit organizations and has been involved in all recent discussions and initiatives regarding pro bono legal practice and the attitudes of the legal profession toward access to justice in Brazil. Juliana was also an assistant teacher in an Extension Course on Law to Non-Profit Organizations developed by Fundacao Getulio Vargas Business School in 2002 and is a member of the Commission for the Development of Non-Profit Organizations of the São Paulo State Bar Association. Juliana received her Bachelor of Law degree from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo School of Law in 2001 and her specialization in Social Responsibility and Strategic Social Investment from the Institute for the Development of Social Investment at Sao Paulo Medical School in 2003. She hopes to use her studies at Columbia to contribute to the development of pro bono service and to improve democracy in Brazil. (jgr2116@columbia.edu)
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